Three men stand in front of the cashier at the Claremont McKenna Bookstore. Books and supplies are visible in the background and a rack of LPs is visible in the foreground. The bookstore stood where the Heggblade building now stands.

Professor Charles Burton Fahs, a professor of oriental studies who held a joint appointment at Pomona College and the Claremont Colleges, sits at a desk and looks at an atlas. The plaque on the wall behind him reads: "John Treanor - 1883-1935 -...